Easton basketball players scaled rock-climbing walls.Allen and Dieruff cheerleaders tested their upper-body strength on an exercise pole.A Palisades football player boxed a stronger foe from Philadelphia.On the perimeter of the basketball epicenter at...

Conduct the following experiment. Stand in front of a stone wall approximately waist high, bend over a bit and then relax your muscles completely so that your face smashes directly into the wall. Then do the same thing while wearing a high quality...

A family, a sense of anticipation that?s been building all week, a car packed with kids ? and you don't get back home until dark. Your destination: a fun-filled amusement park where everyone spends the entire day being thrilled, getting splashed on,...

Operating on gunshot victims in war-torn sub-Saharan Africa in 110-degree heat with flies buzzing around your face is not every surgeon's idea of retirement. But then Dr. Michael Sinclair has never been much of a golfer.
The 73-year-old Sinclair is...

I wrote two columns last week about Christi Bruchok and Tauru Chaw, who traveled from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost point in North America over the course of 19 months to educate people about visual impairments ... .

Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, which already has one of the busiest music venues in the world with its Sands Bethlehem Event Center, and offers nightclub performers in its Molton Lounge, will soon offer a new type of entertainment: For children ... .

After spending time in the outdoors all spring on activities like camping, taking part in the Lehigh River Sojourn, traversing the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor’s northernmost trail, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a bug magnet. Of course

Anyone who has young children knows that finding good playgrounds that can provide an hour or so of fun is essential. As my son has grown we have visited many of the local playgrounds, from massive wooden structures to sleek metal components. It’s hard, even t

As treestand use is a popular part of archery deer seasons, as well as other deer seasons, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is offering hunters the opportunity to take a free, voluntary online treestand safety course. To take the course, go to the agency’s web

Pennsylvania’s fall archery deer season is set to open throughout the Commonwealth, and represents the beginning of big game hunting seasons in the state, said Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe. Statewide archers can hunt antlered or

The low boom, like thunder, didn't startle Galden Sherpa at first. At Mt. Everest base camp, climbers often heard the loud rumble of ice fracturing as the first sunlight struck the mountainside above.
Then word came over the radio: A massive glacier...

Hands torn and bleeding, the second of two men attempting a grueling climb up a half-mile of sheer granite in California's Yosemite National Park cleared one of the ascent's most difficult stretches after days of failed attempts and waiting.
Growing...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story said seven people have died, but the death toll has been revised to six.
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A packed commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle on the tracks at a crossing on Tuesday night, killing six people,...

It's not long until spring break time for the college crowd. From February through March, students around the U.S. will be getting away from campus. An outing with the family may be in the cards, but for many the attraction is partying.
Warm-weather...

Day after day, the two Americans who completed what had been considered the world's most difficult rock climb bloodied their fingertips, endured bruising falls and balanced their bodies on handholds as small as coins.But while living for more than two...

A pair of Americans completed what had long been considered the world's most difficult rock climb Wednesday, using only their hands and feet to scale a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El Capitan, the forbidding granite pedestal in Yosemite National Park...

Somewhere up on that impossibly vertical rock face, two men were inching toward accomplishing what had never been done before.
Tommy Caldwell, 36, and Kevin Jorgeson, 30, could become the first to "free climb" the Dawn Wall. They are propelling...

The ink was barely dry on my driver's license in the early '70s when I set off on my first road trip from home in North Vancouver, Canada. Back then Highway 99 — or the Squamish Highway — was a dangerous, zigzagging, two-lane route chopped into the...